Carry your best ideas all the way to the field
After the awards come a cohort to support, results to put in front of decision-makers, and a record your office will answer for. We stay on so the funded work keeps moving and the next cycle starts from what this one learned.
See the award through
Performers deliver
Funded teams are onboarded at the start and checked on at the midpoint, so a slipping project gets caught while there’s time to fix it.
Results get seen
Funded work goes in front of the people who decide what happens next, with the reasoning that got it funded attached.
The next cycle starts ahead
Repeat work becomes workflows your team reruns, and a point of contact who knows your program is there when the next cycle opens.
In less than eight weeks, you developed things I could already use, versus alternatives that have been trying to do this for a long time and haven’t given me anything usable.
What’s included
Cohort enablement
Support for the performers your program funds: virtual onboarding, midpoint check-ins that surface risk early, and demonstration days that put their work in front of the right people.
Forward deployed engineers
An engineer working alongside your office, shaping the platform around how your program actually runs: the workflows you repeat, the forms you use, and the reports you owe.
What the office walks away with: A platform that fits your program, built once and owned by your office, with its builder still on hand to adjust it.
Example: STRIKEWERX, where market research workflows were built around the team’s own format, with every report carrying its sources.
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Customer success
A named point of contact who stays with your program across cycles, plus a review before each new one: what worked, what didn’t, and what to change.
What the office walks away with: Someone who already knows your program when the next cycle starts.
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Nothing to carry across by hand
Results, workflows, and decisions stay in the platform, so nothing has to be carried across by hand when the next cycle opens, or someone new arrives.
Intelligence
The research workflows the program reruns live here, with every finding traced to its source, ready the day the next requirement comes in.
Source
The results and the reasoning behind every selection stay with the submissions they were about, so the review after the award and the call after that both start from the record.
Acquire
For funding programs, including SBIR/STTR, the awards and the phases that follow stay on the same timestamped record the cycle ran on.
More than 50 solutions came in through the platform, and 24 were assessed at a showcase. One awardee, Airion Health, went on to prototype an in-flight relief system for aviators that later flew to the International Space Station as a NASA technology demonstration.
Every stage, one team
The same people can be there before the program opens and after the awards are made, and what happens in each stage is already in the record for the next.
Plan
Isolate the right problem and the right people. Everything before the solicitation opens: the problem statement, who should see it, and how a submission will move from intake to award.
Run
Stand it up and keep the ideas from getting lost. Everything while the program runs: the platform set up for the program’s rules, the sessions run and captured, the outreach done, and the community kept active.
Keep the momentum going after the award
A cohort to support, a report you rebuild every quarter, or a record that has to hold up next year. We’ll show you what stays with your program after the awards and where our team fits.
Contracting vehicles
Direct award pathways, no new competition required.
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition.
Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits. Contracting vehicles →